Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but considering the latest uproar over love
& relationships, and the fact that we're all computer users, i thought that
this would be appropriate:
>Software alert
>
>Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0
>and found that it's a memory hog, leaving very little system resources
>available for other applications.
>
>He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes
>which are further consuming valuable resources.
>
>No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product
>brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him
>that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not
>only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at
>system initialization, where it can monitor all other system activity.
> He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash
> 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all,
> crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked
> fine before). During installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to
> the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and
> BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish
>with each
> passing day.
>
> Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.
> - - - - A "Don't remind me again" button
> - - - - Minimize button
> - - - - An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed
> with the option to uninstall at anytime
> without the loss of cache and other system resources.
> - - - - An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode,
> which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be
> much more useful.
>
> I myself decided to avoid the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by
> sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many
>problems.
>
> Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend
> 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is
>a
> long standing bug that I should have known about. Apparently the
>versions
> of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You'd
> think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters
> worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very
>well,
> leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.
>
> Another thing -- all versions of Girlfriend continually pop up
> little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0
>
> ***** BUG WARNING ********
> Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1
> before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files
> before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to
> install, claiming insufficient resources.
>
> ***** BUG WORK-AROUNDS ********
> To avoid this bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system
> and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0.
> Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to
> carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.
>
> Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider
> under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which
> can accidently be downloaded from the UseNet.
>
> Hope this is enlightning... Andre
>
>
>
BEN RUSET
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